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Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of in Situ TiAl-Ti2AlC Composites Prepared by Reactive Hot Pressing
Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of in Situ TiAl-Ti2AlC Composites Prepared by Reactive Hot Pressing
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Ceramics International 40 (2014) 8165–8171
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Abstract
TiAl/Ti2AlC composites with a broad range of composition are successfully fabricated utilizing in-situ reactive hot pressing method with Ti,
Al and TiC powders as starting materials. Effects of the Ti2AlC contents from 0 wt% to 75 wt% on the microstructure and mechanical properties
of the composites were investigated. The phase transformation at different temperature was characterized by XRD, and the microstructures were
measured by SEM equipped with EDS. The result shows that Ti reacted with Al to form TiAl intermetallics below 900 1C; and above 900 1C,
TiAl reacted with TiC to produce dense composites. The products sintered at 1300 1C have obvious lamellar structure. With the increasing of the
Ti2AlC content, the density and hardness of the TiAl/Ti2AlC composites increase gradually, the fracture toughness and bending strength reach the
peak value of 7.78 MPa m1/2 and 486 MPa at 15 wt%Ti2AlC content. The strengthening mechanism of the composites was also discussed.
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Table 1
The compositions of the samples (wt%).
Fig. 3. SEM images of the samples with (a) 15 wt%, (b) 30 wt%, (c) 45 wt%, (d) 60 wt%, and (e) 75 wt%Ti2AlC particles, respectively.
Fig. 4. The density and hardness of the TiAl/Ti2AlC composites with different Fig. 6. The bending strength and fracture toughness of the TiAl/Ti2AlC
Ti2AlC content. composites with different Ti2AlC content.
Table 3
Summary of typical properties of the as-prepared TiAl/Ti2AlC composites, together with those from Ref. [20] for comparison.
Fig. 7. SEM images of the fractured surfaces of the samples with (a) 15 wt%, (b) 30 wt%, (c) 45 wt%, (d) 60 wt%, and (e) 75 wt%Ti2AlC particles, respectively.
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